/lit/ - Literature

>>14047125
/dump

>>11939002
If you're an absolute beginner, poetry may be more frustrating than fun. Start with easy prose, give yourself some time. Usually, Catullus or Virgil will be the first poetry that young Latin students read.

>>11939017
I browsed regularly until /pol/ started getting popular a few years back. Got sick of anon for a while and check sporadically on /clas/ generals but mainly stay away.

>>11939102
I learned because I love literature and wanted to be able to read the things my favorite authors loved. It's a job now, I guess, but I'm not trying to be an academic.

>>11939103
It's kinda happening. Look up things like Paideia institute in Rome, and U of Kentucky's famous spoken Latin program. There is a huge push for more natural teaching methods and Latin learning.

>>11939157
(sorry to burst your bubble but Aurelius wrote in Greek)

>>11939181
>wasted several years...
Fair mate, I feel that. I think in an ideal world, Orberg would be required summer reading after first year Latin because it helps bridge the gap between translating and reading that seems difficult for students like you. Glad you are finding things that work.

>>11939218
Tldr, it's complicated, but yeah just about any aristocrat Roman (depending on the time period and place) knew Greek. Status symbols change over time tho (e.g. Nero and Hadrian were laughed at for liking Greek too much (but they were generally looked down on by senators who were writing the histories, so)). The earliest Latin lit (Livius Andronicus) was a translation of the Odyssey meant to help him teach his students Greek, and Plautus, a wildly popular early playwright, frequently made bilingual jokes for a broad, popular audience. So not a super stark status marker, but am extant distinguisher.

>>11939249
lol

>>11939265
doesn't matter if you work hard. Greek has fewer helpful tools for the autodidact tho.

>>11939352
catullus 63

>>11939285
>Cicero and Ovid
>uncool
fucking plebs

>>7299561
You sound more angry than me tbh. Just saying a child could do what those guys are doing.

Who is the final boss of philosophy?

Who is the final boss of poetry?

>inb4 Stirner; Rimbaud